"Denise Huxtable Denise Huxtable Kendall is a fictional character who appears on the American sitcom ""The Cosby Show"" (1984–1991), portrayed by actress Lisa Bonet. Denise also stars in the first season of its spin-off sitcom, ""A Different World"" (1987). The second-born child of Cliff and Clair Huxtable, Denise is known for her eccentric clothing and free-spirited, rebellious nature, earning her a reputation as the Huxtable family's wild child. Alternating between being a regular and recurring character, Denise appears on the sitcom on-and-off throughout its eight-year run, from its pilot ""Theo's Economic Lesson"" to the seventh season episode ""Cliff and Jake"","
"New York. He was born in October 1937 in Philadelphia, making him 47 years old at the beginning of the series. Cliff had a brother, James Theodore Huxtable, who died of rheumatic fever at the age of 7. In his high school and college years, he was an athlete who wrestled, played football, and ran track. He later served in the Navy before going to medical school. He is an OB/GYN who runs a practice from the office annexed to his home. In the show, most characters outside of family and friends refer to him as ""Dr. Huxtable"", and he"
"is well-respected in the community. Cliff is married to Clair Huxtable. Both Cliff and Clair attended the fictional historically black college Hillman College. Together, they have five children: Sondra, Denise, Theodore (Theo), Vanessa, and Rudith (Rudy). Cliff enjoys live jazz, has an extensive collection of albums, and tries to eat junk food whenever he can get away with it. Cliff is very eccentric and silly to most people around him, especially his family, however he is very kind-hearted and an extremely dedicated father with a strong sense of humor. Although he and his wife fostered a tight-knit, loving family, a"
"life. The show led to the spinoff ""A Different World"", which ran for six seasons from 1987 to 1993. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family, living in a brownstone in Brooklyn Heights, New York, at 10 Stigwood Avenue. The patriarch is Cliff Huxtable, an obstetrician and son of a prominent jazz trombonist. The matriarch is his wife, attorney Clair Huxtable. They have four daughters and one son: Sondra, Denise, Theo, Vanessa, and Rudy. Despite its comedic tone, the show sometimes involves serious subjects, like Theo's experiences dealing with dyslexia, inspired by Cosby's dyslexic son,"
"Huxtable family. A lawyer, Clair is the mother of five children, Sondra, Denise, Theo, Vanessa and Rudy, whom she raises alongside husband Cliff, an obstetrician, in a brownstone in Brooklyn, New York. Clair's home address is 10 Stigwood Avenue, Brooklyn Heights, New York. Episodes typically revolve around Clair and Cliff dealing with everyday situations and problems as they pertain to a standard household during the 1980s. Although both Clair and Cliff counsel, admonish and oftentimes outwit their children together, dividing their parental responsibilities equally, Clair tends to serve as primary disciplinarian to her children – and occasionally to Cliff as"
"of life for the everyday American. Although the lessons seem harsh, Cliff makes it clear that his instruction is an attempt to convince him that it is important to try his best. Cliff is troubled upon meeting Denise's (Lisa Bonet) latest admirer (Todd Hollowell) who is a former merchant marine and Turkish prisoner. Clair Huxtable, an attorney, and her children are having dinner at home. Clair is upset with Theo due to the poor grades on his recent report cards. His younger sister Vanessa was trying to get Theo in trouble for throwing food at her as well. Dr. Cliff"
"is revered as one of television's most beloved mothers; as one of television's first working mothers, the character's profound influence on African-American women and female lawyers in television has been dubbed the ""Clair Huxtable effect"". However, in light of several recent sexual assault allegations made against Cosby, some critics have begun to question the comedian's intentions behind creating Clair. Born Clair Olivia Hanks, Clair is a graduate of the fictional Hillman College located in Virginia, the school at which she first met and fell in love with Dr. Heathcliff ""Cliff"" Huxtable. Clair is the matriarch of the upper middle class"
"older sister Vanessa. In 1986, Knight Pulliam identified ""The Cosby Show"" as her favorite television show. However, the actress voiced that she dislikes being referred to as ""Rudy"" when she is not in character. The actress fondly remembers her first seasons on the show as her ""favorite time"". Knight Pulliam is particularly fond of the first season episode ""Happy Anniversary"", in which the Huxtables perform Ray Charles' ""Night Time is the Right Time"" (1958) for Cliff's parents in honor of their wedding anniversary. Having portrayed the character for eight years, Knight Pulliam was age 13 by the time the show"
"The Cosby Show The Cosby Show was an American television sitcom starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984, until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York. ""The Cosby Show"" spent five consecutive seasons as the number-one rated show on television. ""The Cosby Show"" and ""All in the Family"" are the only sitcoms in the history of the Nielsen ratings to be the number-one show for five seasons. It spent all eight of its seasons in the top 20. According to"
"she was intending to be a full-time music recording artist. Most of the story in the pilot presentation is taken from Bill Cosby's classic comedy film """". Cosby's character is called ""Clifford"" in the early episodes of the first season (as evidenced by his name plate on the exterior of the Huxtable home). His name was later switched to ""Heathcliff"". Additionally, Vanessa refers to Theo as ""Teddy"" twice in the dining room scene. The interior of the Huxtables' home features an entirely different living room from subsequent episodes, and different color schemes in the dining room and the master bedroom."
"Phylicia Rashad Phylicia Rashād ( ) (née Ayers-Allen; June 19, 1948) is an American actress, singer and stage director. She is known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the long-running NBC sitcom ""The Cosby Show"" (1984–92), which earned her Emmy Award nominations in 1985 and 1986. She was dubbed ""The Mother"" of the black community at the 2010 NAACP Image Awards. In 2004, Rashad became the first black actress to win the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, which she won for her role in the revival of ""A Raisin in the Sun"". Her other Broadway credits"
"and one son, much like his character Cliff on the show. All five of the Huxtable children are based on Cosby's own; Denise in particular was based on the creator's daughter Erinn, who was approximately Denise's same age when the series began in 1984. According to ""Cosby: His Life and Times"" author Mark Whitaker, Cosby conceived Denise as a ""hip, fashion-conscious, and a bit flaky"" character. Early storylines included Denise fighting with younger sister Vanessa over the latter borrowing a sweater from her without her permission, getting her braces removed, announcing her decision to attend college away from home, promising"
"Heathcliff (1984 TV series) Heathcliff ( Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats) is a French-Canadian-American animated television series that debuted on September 5, 1984. It was the second series based on the ""Heathcliff"" comic strip and was produced by DiC Audiovisuel. It ran in syndication until 1988 with a total of 86 episodes. The first show based on the comic strip was ""Heathcliff and Dingbat / Heathcliff and Marmaduke"", which debuted in 1980 and was produced by Ruby-Spears. The Catillacs Cats characters were created by Jean Chalopin and Bruno Bianchi. Animation was outsourced to many Japanese, Taiwanese, and Korean studios including"
"airing from 1984 until 1992, spent five consecutive seasons as the number one rated show on television. ""The Cosby Show"" and ""All in the Family"" are the only sitcoms in the history of the Nielsen ratings, to be the number one show for five seasons. It spent all eight of its seasons in the Top 20. According to ""TV Guide"", the show ""was TV's biggest hit in the 1980s, and almost single handedly revived the sitcom genre and NBC's ratings fortunes."" ""TV Guide"" also ranked it 28th on their list of ""50 Greatest Shows"". In addition, Cliff Huxtable was named"
"shared her feminism in the home, someone like Alicia Florrick can now share it in the courtrooms"". Crediting Clair with pioneering ""the feminist, TV lawyer"", the character's impact extends to include Diane Lockhart from ""The Good Wife"" and Abby Whelan from ""Scandal"". Rainbow Johnson from the sitcom ""Black-ish"" is often compared to Clair. In 2015, ""Elle"" dubbed Rainbow ""the next Clair Huxtable""; the character often asks herself ""What would Clair Huxtable do?"" when struggling to parent her own children. Conversely, in 2014 Dr. Mlsee Harris of ""The Huffington Post"" published an article asking ""Where Is This Generation’s Clair Huxtable?"", believing"
"Highcliffe Manor Highcliffe Manor is an American sitcom with a gothic horror background focused on the events in a mansion with crazy scientists and strange figures. The series starred Shelley Fabares and aired on NBC from April 12 to May 3, 1979. The plot concerned the goings on at Highcliffe Manor, a creepy mansion in New England owned by widow Helen Blacke that was home to the Blacke Foundation, a scientific research institute with a houseful of sinister characters which included Frances, a mad scientist; Bram Shelley, a bionic man; Ian Glenville, a womanizing preacher; Cheng, a huge Korean assistant;"
"rein to do the episode as he saw fit. The show lasted three years from 1981-83. He reprised the role in the spin-off pilot ""The Greatest American Heroine"" and a voice-over on the stop-motion sketch comedy ""Robot Chicken"". During that time, Culp was rumored to replace Larry Hagman as J. R. Ewing in ""Dallas."" However, Culp firmly denied this, insisting he would never leave his role as Bill Maxwell. In 1987, he reunited with Cosby on ""The Cosby Show"", playing Dr. Cliff Huxtable's old friend Scott Kelly. The name was a combination of their ""I Spy"" characters' names. Culp had"
"Lewis & Clark (TV series) Lewis & Clark is an American sitcom that aired on NBC for one season from October 29, 1981 to July 30, 1982. The series stars Gabe Kaplan (who also created the series) and Guich Koock. For a naive New Yorker, Stewart Lewis (Gabe Kaplan) has a strange—some would say twisted—ambition: he wants to own a country-music club. His wife and kids hate the idea. Despite their misgivings, Stewart moves his family to Luckenbach, Texas, where he bought the Nassau County Cafe, a joint that has had nine owners in the last six years and sports"
"Clarice Taylor Clarice Taylor (September 20, 1917 – May 30, 2011) was an American stage, film and television actress. Born in Buckingham County, Virginia but raised in Harlem, New York, Taylor was best known for her recurring role on television on ""The Cosby Show"" as Dr. Heathcliff ""Cliff"" Huxtable's (Bill Cosby) mother, Anna Huxtable. She was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1986 for the role. She was also a regular on ""Nurse"", played Harriet on ""Sesame Street"", and appeared as Grady's cousin Emma on ""Sanford and Son"". Taylor started working in the theatre—with the American Negro Theatre—at a time"
"the ""Boston Globe"", Matt Roush of ""USA Today"" (in 1987 after the first 81 episodes), and Candace Murphy of the ""Oakland Tribune"". In the fourth season two-part November 12, 1987 ""Looking Back"" episode, the family tries to help the newlywed Sondra Huxtable and Elvin reconcile after their first fight. The episode recounts highlights of the first 81 episodes to help Elvin understand Sondra and her family and this episode is highlighted. According to TBS, the following lines in the funeral part of the script were among the most memorable in the entire series: Goodbye Mr. Fish ""Goodbye Mr. Fish"" or"
"and positive critical feedback. Its viewer ratings placed it third for the opening week of the 1984–85 United States network television season and it earned Primetime Emmy Award and Writers Guild Award nominations for its writing. Several critics either describe this as the most memorable episode of the series or mention it first when describing the series' memorable episodes. Other critics as well as Bill Cosby include it on short lists of series highlights. Clips of this episode are included in the season 4 two-part ""Looking Back"" episode. Cliff (Bill Cosby) comes home from a long day at work and"
"cases, recurring characters have been given spin-off series of their own, such as Dr. Frasier Crane who originally was a recurring character on ""Cheers"". Kelsey Grammer, along with fellow recurring actor John Ratzenberger were hired for seven episodes, to play Frasier Crane and Cliff Clavin respectively. Cliff was scheduled to recur during the 1982-1983 season, Frasier to recur during 1984-1985 season. Both actors were subsequently upgraded to the main cast, and Crane continued in his own series following the end of ""Cheers"". On sketch comedy programs, recurring characters are generally a staple. For example, in the sketch comedy series ""Your"
"him an Emmy Award nomination in 1986. He played the father of lead character Cliff Huxtable, played by actor Bill Cosby, despite only being 11 years older than Cosby. Hyman, who never married or had children, died at age 91 on November 17, 2017, at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, New Jersey. In Norway he was seen as a friend of the country and had a cabin in Skånevik. Earle Hyman learned speaking Norwegian through his live-in partner, the sailor Rolf Sirnes (1926–2004) from Haugesund. In the 1990s they lived in New York City. Earle Hyman Earle Hyman"
"and grow less funny towards the show's latter seasons as both the actress and her character aged. Rudy (Keshia Knight Pulliam) is introduced as the five-year-old youngest child of Cliff (Bill Cosby), an obstetrician, and Clair Huxtable (Phylicia Rashad), a lawyer; the character's full name is revealed to be ""Rudith Lillian Huxtable"" in the first-season episode ""Theo and the Joint"". She is the youngest sister of Sondra (Sabrina Le Beuf), Denise (Lisa Bonet), Theo (Malcolm-Jamal Warner) and Vanessa (Tempestt Bledsoe). In early episodes, Rudy attends an unidentified grammar school and owns a teddy bear she calls ""Bobo"" and a pet"
"plausible factor is something called the ""Huxtable effect"", where the positive image of the respectable African American character Cliff Huxtable, a respected middle-class pediatrician and father on the 1980s television series ""The Cosby Show"", made young voters who grew up with that series' initial run comfortable with the idea of an African American man being a viable presidential candidate, which enhanced Obama's election chances with that population. Others have called it the ""Palmer effect"" on the theory that David Palmer, a fictional president played by Dennis Haysbert during the second and third seasons of the television drama ""24"", showed viewers"
"left Cliff and his mother years earlier when Cliff was still a child. Cliff later realizes that his father is a fraudster and a fugitive from justice, and will run off again. Cliff does not want to turn his father in; Cliff Sr. disappears, leaving his son devastated. In the 1993 series finale, Cliff finally receives a promotion. In ""The Show Where Sam Shows Up"" (1995), an episode of the ""Cheers"" spinoff ""Frasier"", Sam (Ted Danson) tells Frasier that Cliff has not left home since he read an article about flesh-eating bacteria; however, Sam then discovers that Cliff is one"
"(1998). Alongside returning series stars (Patrick Duffy, Larry Hagman, Linda Gray, George Kennedy, Ken Kercheval and Steve Kanaly), and recurring cast (Omri Katz, Audrey Landers, Deborah Rennard and George O. Petrie), the two telefilms also introduced new characters – most notably up-and-coming lawyer Anita Smithfield, played by Tracy Scoggins. The younger characters Christopher Ewing, and Cliff and Afton's daughter Pamela Rebecca were recast with Chris Demetral and Deborah Kellner taking on the roles. In November 2003, SOAPnet aired a Dallas reunion on Soap Talk to coincide with SOAPnet acquiring the rights to rerun Dallas episodes. Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda"
"demanding career and having a family were not mutually exclusive"", seldom hesitating to challenge anyone who doubts her ability to maintain both. For example, in the season one episode ""How Ugly Is He?"", Clair responds to a sexist statement made by Denise's then-boyfriend David about Clair's decision to work as opposed to remaining home to raise the children with ""Why don’t you ask Dr. Huxtable that question?"" This exchange would serve as a preface to future, more prominent confrontations Clair would have with Sondra's chauvinistic boyfriend Elvin, who is introduced in the following season in the episode ""Cliff in Love"","
"who you are. May God bless you. Hyman was 45 years old. A memorial service was held at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Manhattan. The following week would have been her 46th birthday. Hyman was married once to Larry Alexander, who served as her music arranger from 1977 until divorcing in 1982. Hyman had no children. Hyman was also the first cousin of actor Earle Hyman, best known for his recurring role on ""The Cosby Show"" as Cliff's father, Russell Huxtable. In November 1995, Hyman's posthumous album, ""I Refuse to Be Lonely"", was released. Although the project had an overdrawn"
"Ewing, daughter of the late Jason Ewing and therefore a cousin of J.R. and Bobby (played by Jenilee Harrison) in 1985, but the union was unhappy at first, Cliff having married Jamie purely for the inheritance he always believed to be his birthright. During the 1985-86 season they realized how much they loved one another and became close. In April 1986, Jamie was seen trapped in a blazing car and presumed dead. But the entire 1985-86 season turned out to be the nightmare of Cliff's sister Pam. So Cliff and Jamie's happy marriage and her supposed death were just a"
"were released under the French title of the series, ""Les Entrechats"". """" was released to theaters on January 17, 1986, and subsequently on VHS in 1988 by Paramount Video. It includes seven segments from the original show: Heathcliff (1984 TV series) Heathcliff ( Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats) is a French-Canadian-American animated television series that debuted on September 5, 1984. It was the second series based on the ""Heathcliff"" comic strip and was produced by DiC Audiovisuel. It ran in syndication until 1988 with a total of 86 episodes. The first show based on the comic strip was ""Heathcliff and"
"Cliff Barnes Clifford ""Cliff"" Barnes, played by Ken Kercheval, is a fictional character from the popular American television series ""Dallas"". The Barnes family are competitors and sometimes enemies of the Ewing family. Cliff is the son of Willard ""Digger"" Barnes and Rebecca Barnes, the brother of Pamela Barnes Ewing and the half-brother of Katherine Wentworth. J.R. Ewing (played by Larry Hagman) was Cliff's personal nemesis, with Cliff and J.R. continuing on the bitter feud that started with their fathers, Digger Barnes and Jock Ewing, from their oil wildcatting days in the 1930s. Cliff and J.R. were the only two characters"
"and Cliff's wife Jamie Ewing Barnes; and Andrew Stevens (seasons 11–12) as Casey Denault, a young hustler who works for J.R., romancing Lucy in order to get to her money. Long-time child characters include J.R.'s and Sue Ellen's son John Ross Ewing III (portrayed for seasons 4–6 by Tyler Banks, and for seasons 7–14 by Omri Katz); Bobby's and Pam's adopted son Christopher Ewing (portrayed by Eric Farlow for seasons 6–8, and by Joshua Harris for seasons 9–14), and Jenna's daughter Charlotte ""Charlie"" Wade (Shalane McCall, seasons 7–11, also played by Laurie Lynn Myers for a season 2 episode). Among"